COUGARS When I awoke this morning, the first thing I did was check my hearing. See, after the game last night my ears weren't working all that well. For the first time this season, Beasley Coliseum was so loud it made my ears – and…
Good morning. I don't know how many people are still up at this hour, but I am. That's because I watched the replay and I wanted to put together the day-after post because I'm going to be out of Internet range for most of Sunday.So…
COUGARS WSU had everything going its way. The 11,671 in Beasley were going bonkers, putting out a noise that made my ears hurt. The rally seemed to have an inevitability to it, until there were 10 minutes left to play. Then, with a lead finally…
With the Tri-City Americans invading and a full house watching, the Spokane Chiefs come away with a critical 5-2 win Saturday night that was much closer than the score indicated. The unedited game story is below.The Chiefs hit the road for three while the 2B…
Make it three straight losses for Idaho. The Vandals put together another feeble offensive showing and lost 60-49 at Lousiana Tech on Saturday evening. UI shot just 39% and was 3 of 15 from 3-point range against the Bulldogs, who rebounded from a stunning loss…
Back with the expanded game story from Gonzaga's 75-69 win over USF. Read on for the unedited version below and check back tomorrow for a day-after post.
The Mead and Gonzaga Prep boys are now 2-2 on the season after the Bullpups rallied to capture the 4A regional championship Saturday.Click the tab below to read my unedited game story.
Click the tab below to read my unedited 3A regional boys and girls basketball story.
COUGARS After having trailed all of the first half, WSU was a different team in the second half, rallying to take a three-point lead (44-41 with 7:47 left). But Washington had too much down the stretch and it was able to regain the lead, quiet…
COUGARS Well, lack of energy isn't the problem. Lack of a shooting touch, now that's a pretty big one. WSU missed its first seven shots, was 3 of 18, 6 of 31 and finished the half 6 of 33, which is pretty bad the last…
The Mead girls basketball team captured the 4A regional title for the first time since 1992.Click the tab below to read more.
Gonzaga made 7 of 8 free throws in the final 3:10 to outlast San Francisco 75-69, giving the 18th-ranked Bulldogs an outright WCC championship. The Dons, who beat Gonzaga in overtime last month, gave the Zags all they could handle, but USF’s rally from a…
Plenty of women's basketball news and we'll try to get to it all before the hockey game starts.Gonzaga became the first school to have a pair of perfect WCC seasons by destroying San Francisco today. Along the way, Courtney Vandersloot set the league record for…
COUGARS There will be one really interested spectator tonight in a sold-out Beasley Coliseum. Bill Moos, the newly named athletic director, will be introduced to the crowd at the first media time out. Expect a thunderous greeting, if only from Bobo Brayton. Actually, Moos will…
COUGARS One-game weeks seem to drag on and on. It seems like a week since Washington State has played a game – wait, it has been a week since the win over USC. Tonight the Huskies bring their interesting road record into a packed Beasley…
The Coeur d'Alene wrestling team leads the State 5A tournament after the first day.Click the tab below to read our unedited story.
The Mead and Gonzaga Prep boys are headed to state.And they'll face off a fourth time Saturday in the 4A regional championship game.Click the tab below to read my unedited game story.
The Spokane Chiefs celebrated their Top 25 players in 25 years in style Friday night, using a hat trick by local hero Tyler Johnson to coast to a 5-1 victory over the Prince George Cougars.The unedited game story is below. Don't forget to share your…
Any remaining chance Eastern Washington's men's basketball team had of making the Big Sky Conference Tournament went down in flames -- much like the Eagles -- in Friday night's 85-57 home loss to Weber State.You can read an unedited version of the game story that…
4A regional boysMead slipped past Kamiakin 49-48 and is headed back to state for the first time since 2003.More later.
Mead topped Walla Walla, Chiawana downed Lewis and Clark and Central Valley handled Richland.Click the tab below to read my unedited story.
UPDATE:GIRLSHalftime: Chiawana 31, Lewis and Clark 23The Riverhawks used a 10-0 run to open a 24-9 lead with 5:28 left in the second quarter. But Lewis and Clark fought back, pulling within 28-21.Final: Mead 52, Walla Walla 35More later.
As part of their 25th anniversary celebration the Spokane Chiefs, with the help of fans, picked 25 all-time greats. It's quite an impressive list and 15 of the 25 were introduced at a press conference Friday afternoon and 16 will be recognized tonight before the…
COUGARS Senior ceremonies will be quite short tomorrow night. There are the two senior managers, Ben Cartmell and Charlie Hawkins. And there is the one senior player, Nik Koprivica. We've written a lot about Nik this year, starting with our feature kicking off the year…
Back with the day-after post from Gonzaga's 88-51 trampling of Santa Clara. Same drill as always. First, the links: S-R gamer, John Blanchette's column on GU's decade of WCC rule, photos, A.P., WCC recaps can be found here, and here's an Oregonian article on San…
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